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Net Neutrality Being Examined by FTC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-all-about-the-benjamin's dept.

elrendermeister writes to tell us Computerworld Security is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission has formed an Internet Access Task Force to evaluate the validity of claims that large broadband providers should be able to limit or block web content from competitors. From the article: "Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras on Monday also called on lawmakers to be cautious about passing a Net neutrality law, which could prohibit broadband providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. from giving their own Internet content top priority, or from charging Web sites additional fees for faster service. [...] 'While I am sounding cautionary notes about new legislation, let me make clear that if broadband providers engage in anticompetitive conduct, we will not hesitate to act using our existing authority,' she said. 'But I have to say, thus far, proponents of Net neutrality regulation have not come to us to explain where the market is failing or what anticompetitive conduct we should challenge.'"

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  1. Can't open many .com, .org sites by lowenstein · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here in Europe we can't reach some of the US .com, .org or even .gov websites, I only know about them because they "exist" on archive.org. There is no traffic limit, they simply cut the DNS for them on port 54. You can't even resolve the domain for particular IP, so you get nothing, you may think that those webs do not exist. The problem is that ISP provider is running their own websites like "clix.pt" and advertising on them. Why allow you to spend some time off their network? They cut the competition off. Slashdot.org still "works" so far, probably it was not deemed threatning enough for them, but if more users will ==spend significant time== on Slashdot.org they will cut off Slashdot.org too. If there is not competing ISP then they can do pretty much everything they want.

  2. Only one question on my mind... by Serengeti · · Score: 0, Troll

    'But I have to say, thus far, proponents of Net neutrality regulation have not come to us to explain where the market is failing or what anticompetitive conduct we should challenge.'

    To what mailing/emailing address does one direct such arguments?